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Hook is a 1991 American fantasy adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo.It stars Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell, Bob Hoskins as Mr. Smee, Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy and Charlie Korsmo as Jack Banning.
Maggie Smith becomes the essence of spinster – she makes you feel the ghastliness of knowing you're a figure of fun." [61] In the early 1990s, Smith appeared in various box-office comedies. In 1991 Smith appeared as Granny Wendy in Steven Spielberg's 1991 film Hook, a fantasy adventure film based on the Peter Pan character.
For 1991's cult-favorite retelling of the Peter Pan story, Hook, Smith portrayed Granny Wendy in the movie starring Robin Williams and Julia Roberts. 'Sister Act,' 1992 Moviestore/Shutterstock
Other notable roles include Travels with My Aunt (1972), Death on the Nile (1978), A Room with a View (1986), Richard III (1995), Gosford Park (2001) and Quartet (2012). Smith also starred in the commercially successful films Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Secret Garden (1993) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and its sequel.
Dame Maggie Smith, star of the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 89. ... In 1990 she was created DBE and, a year later, appeared as the ageing Wendy in Hook, Stephen ...
Maggie Smith in 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2' ... grandmotherly Wendy in Steven Spielberg's 1991 Peter Pan film, Hook, ...
LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, who died Friday aged 89, appeared in dozens of films over more than 60 years. Roles ranged from her iconic turn in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" to her Professor Minerva McGonagall in seven Harry Potter films, and films from Shakespeare's “Othello” to the animated “Gnomeo & Juliet.”
Wendy Moira Angela Darling is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of the 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie, as well as in most adaptations in other media. Her exact age is not specified in the original play or novel by Barrie, though it is implied that she is about Peter's age as she is "just Peter's size".